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CACHECOW/ stanforstan.com
A public notice  ☞  posted where his foreman might find it

Dear Stan,

You bought nearly a million acres and almost nobody noticed. We noticed. We noticed everything.

We're CacheCow. We build the technology that listens to cattle: every breath, every step, every quiet sign of trouble a herd gives off hours before a person could. And we think you, of all the people on this earth, should have it.

We couldn't help ourselves. We're fans.

We already wrote the message. You just point it at Stan.
Reward  ·  the running tab
The Cost of Inaction
Every day you don't call, your herds leave money on the table. We did the math. Repeatedly. Since we started counting, it has reached
$209,792,698
It's a little embarrassing how much we care.
Reward poster  ·  the man himself
Stan, a line-drawn portrait
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Three doors

Where should we start?

Door 03
I'm a rancher.
Then there's a saddle in this somewhere, and a real seat at a company that's just getting started.
See the saddle ☞
The Dossiers  ·  public record only

We made one for every ranch.

Everything here is already published. We just loved it enough to put it all in one place: the most detailed public study of these operations anywhere, and the only one written by admirers.

[ scouting plate · Singleton ]
Singleton Ranches
New Mexico
Acreage
937,950
Closed
Dec 2025
What we'd do here

The largest ranch sale in American history, and nearly a million near-blank acres. Build the listening grid from zero. No retrofits, just a herd that talks to you from the day it arrives.

[ scouting plate · Waggoner ]
Waggoner Ranch
Texas
Acreage
535–560k
Head
~6,800
Reported 535,000–560,000 ac; 510,527 deeded in the 2016 court purchase. Sources vary; we list the range.
What we'd do here

Over 800 square miles under one fence, the largest in Texas. 6,800 head is 6,800 heartbeats we'd learn by name: hear the cough three days before the vet would, and never lose a calf to weather we already saw coming.

[ scouting plate · High desert ]
Winecup Gamble
Nevada
Acreage
805,580
Tenure
Deeded + leased
What we'd do here

Hard country, thin water, big distances. The cattle that thrive out here are telling you exactly how they do it. We'd write it all down and hand you the manual.

[ scouting plate · Q Creek ]
Q Creek Ranch
Wyoming
Total
~560,000
Deeded
11,260
What we'd do here

Mostly leased high plains, where Wyoming wind moves a herd before a rancher feels the change. Our sensors don't get cold. They'd hold the line on the nights you're finally asleep.

[ scouting plate · Broken O ]
Broken O Ranch
Montana
Acreage
124,000
Since
2012
What we'd do here

Contiguous, cold, and quiet, one of the largest in the Rocky Mountain West. A herd here doesn't phone home on its own. We'd give it a voice for the nights that drop below zero.

[ across the border · Douglas Lake ]
Douglas Lake Ranch
B.C. · Canada
Acreage
164,000
Since
2018
Canada's largest cattle ranch. A separate country, and outside the US 2.7M total. We counted it anyway.
What we'd do here

We noticed this one too, even though it isn't in the US tally. Different border, same instinct: a herd this size still whispers long before it shouts. We'd be honored to listen here as well.

Figures from public deeds and Land Report reporting. ~2.7M acres across five US states, plus one ranch in Canada we couldn't help noticing.
The standings  ·  reported holdings by acreage

The largest sale in a decade sits on top.

Singleton · NM
937,950
Winecup Gamble · NV
805,580
Q Creek · WY
560,000
W.T. Waggoner · TX
560,000
Douglas Lake · BC
164,000
Broken O · MT
124,000
Deeded and leased figures are mixed and do not sum to the 2.7M editorial US total. Hatched bar = Douglas Lake (BC, Canada), excluded from that total. Source: The Land Report 100, public reporting.
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The Wall  ·  notes to Stan

Other people couldn't help themselves either.

Ranchers and fans, leaving a line for a man they've never met. Warm only. Real names encouraged.

"Keep it cattle country. That's all any of us out here are asking."

Sue-Ann · Miles City, MT

"Met you once at a sale barn. You actually looked at the stock. That stuck with me."

Hank D. · Elko, NV

"Three generations on this land. We'd have given anything for a tool that hears a sick calf early."

The Okafors · Roswell, NM

"If the cattle could vote, they'd want the machine that listens. Smart play, Stan."

Lorrie B. · Cheyenne, WY

"Rode fence on the Waggoner as a kid. Biggest sky I ever saw. Take care of it and it takes care of you."

Wendell T. · Vernon, TX

"Never met a man with a million acres who deserved a good night's sleep more. Let the machine watch the herd."

J. Hartley · Sheridan, WY
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The whole point

If this reaches the right inbox, we'll owe whoever forwarded it forever.

Almost nobody reading this is Stan. But somebody who reads it knows a foreman who knows a manager who walks his fence lines. The letter only has to travel one more hop.

We send you the letter to forward, plus a thank-you. The message is already written. It's a good one.
Rancher-in-Chief

Somewhere in this is a real seat.

Real equity. Judged on merit, not followers. CacheCow is venture-backed and currently raising, and we'd rather build toward a billion-dollar mission alongside someone who has pulled a calf at three in the morning than almost anyone with an MBA.

The trophy is a saddle. Hand-tooled, with the copper ring worked into the leather. One of one. It goes to whoever earns it.

Take the saddle
Raising $2M on a $30M post-money valuation. Present tense, and honest about it.
The trophy saddle: hand-tooled leather with the copper ring worked in, one of one.
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Things Stan Has Said Publicly
[ this space reserved ]
This panel updates automatically the moment you say anything. We check it constantly. The frame's ready whenever you are, Stan.
Days of silence
1,121
And counting. We're not keeping score. We just happen to know the number.
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The line is open
This line never stops ringing, Stan.
A small thing we noticed

Even the Land Report 100 still lists your states as Texas, Wyoming, and Nevada. They forgot New Mexico, the 937,950 acres that made you number one. We didn't. We notice these things. We're fans.

[ public holdings · ~2.7M acres · five states ]
★ five US ranches, by deed
★Singleton NM★W.T. Waggoner TX★Q Creek WY★Broken O MT★Winecup NV
Douglas Lake (BC) sits off-map, outside the US total. We'll be there whenever you're ready, Stan.

"Buy land, they're not making any more of it."

— attributed to Mark Twain. You took the advice. We just noticed.